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iRobot is likely to collapse within 12 months. (www.theregister.com)
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Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.

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[–] TheGreatSnacku@lemm.ee 42 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It technically still works without the app but it loses features that increase the efficiency of the map, tells it where not to clean, scheduled cleaning, etc.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So basically anything that makes it more useful than just doing it yourself.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Everything that makes it better than a generic copy, yes

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

That's why I only bought the basic model -- didn't want a cloud company to have a map of my house lying around